I propose to reply:

"I received your letter about the parcels; I fully sympathize. Our government has already permitted Hoover to send parcels; we shall willingly permit you as well, provided the American government does not forbid it. Lenin."

I request your opinion: should we add something to this? Or perhaps first pass a law**?

24/X. Lenin

Written 24 October 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript